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:'''Common names': Nikolsky's adder, forest-steppe adder.^[1]''
'''Vipera nikolskii''' is a venomous viper species endemic in Ukraine. No subspecies are currently recognized.^[2]

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Description

Geographic range

See also

Cited references

Other references

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Description

Adults are short and thick-bodied, growing to a maximum length of 680 mm.
Holotype: ZDKU 14704, according to Golay et al. (1993).

Geographic range

Central Ukraine. Mallow et al. (2003) mention that the distribution is concentrated in the forest-steppe zone of the Charkov region in Ukraine. The type locality, according to Golay et al. (1993), is the banks of the Uda river, between Besljudovka and Vasishtshevo , near Kharkov.

See also

★ List of viperine species and subspecies.

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★ Snakebite.

Cited references

1. Mallow D, Ludwig D, Nilson G. 2003. True Vipers: Natural History and Toxinology of Old World Vipers. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida. 359 pp. ISBN 0-89464-877-2.
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Other references

★ Golay P, Smith HM, Broadley DG, Dixon JR, McCarthy. Golray P, Schatti J-C, Toriba M. 1993. Endoglyphs and Other Major Venomous Snakes of the World: A Checklist. New York: Springer-Verlag. 393 pp.

★ Vedmederja VI, Grubant VN, Rudajewa AV. 1986. [On the taxonomy of the three viper species in the ''Vipera kaznakowi'' complex]. In: N. Ananjeva and L. Borkin (eds.), Systematics and ecology of Amphibians and Reptiles. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Leningrad, 157:55-61. (In Russian).

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